ECO 72 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS Topic 2 Measures of Central Tendency These slides are copyright © 2003 by Tavis Barr. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License‚ v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Measures of Central Tendency This chapter looks at three different concepts of how we describe a “typical” element of a data set. Mean
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Cosmetic surgery has been performed on many people for decades. Nowadays‚ people all around the world want to look younger. Body image has recently become a huge part of society and a numerous amount of people are not fond of their bodies. Everyone wants to have the perfect body so they are not labeled as anything but perfect. They like to think that cosmetic surgery will make them perfect‚ however‚ other people may not think that it was a good change. Nobody’s happy with who they are and what they
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Introduction The current state of the world economy is quite uncertain. Economic statistics that governments and other financial institutions use to project the economy imply that the world economy is shrinking. Since 2008‚ the state of the American economy has not been attractive. For instance‚ the United States economy has not registered any significant growth for the last three years. The 2011 second quarter results indicated that gross domestic product improved by 1%. At the same time‚ there
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There are many different reasons why people of all ages‚ race‚ and sex get cosmetic surgery today. The majority of people in today’s society get it done because they want to enhance their personal appearance. There are many types of surgeries performed today that are used to boost self-confidence such as‚ breast augmentation‚ rhinoplasty‚ liposuction‚ Botox‚ and other implants. There is a wide variety of surgeries out there that can change anything you want modified about yourself. As people get
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1. What ethical issues is Heather facing in this situation? What possible marketing claims about the company’s relationship with the Amazonian tribe would cross a line into unethical territory? What claims could it make ethically? 2. How could Ma Earth create an ethical climate that would help managers such as Heather ensure that they are behaving ethically? 3. How effectively do you think Ma Earth is practicing corporate social responsibility in this situation? Explain the reasoning behind your
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Chapters 1-3:In order to control costs‚ a company wishes to study the amount of money its sales force spends entertaining clients. The following is a random sample of six entertainment expenses (dinner costs for four people) from expense reports submitted by members of the sales force. $157‚ $132‚ $109‚ $145‚ $125‚ $139. Calculate the mean and sample variance(s^2) and standard deviation. Mean = 807/6 = 134.5. Sample Variance = (109925 – (807^2/6)/6-1 = (109925 – 108541)/5 = 1384/5 = 276.8.
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1. The three components of leadership are: 1.) influencing others‚ 2.) providing direction‚ and: ***getting voluntary acceptance 2. Comparing an organization’s strengths and weaknesses with its competitors is part of: PG 435 Not Self Assessment ***Competitor Analysis 3. Staff scheduling using information technology is only applicable to large organizations. ***False 4. When compared to public relations‚ marketing is: PG 430 Not Broader in scope 5. Which of the following types of
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Hypothesis: Ho: P = .10 (Mr. Plex and consortium will seriously consider settlement) H1: P < .10 (Mr. Plex and consortium will rigorously defend any lawsuit by Tommy) Analysis： For this case‚ we use 0.01 as the significance level. In a hypothesis test‚ a Type I Error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected when it is in fact true. That means if the consortium decides to consider a settlement when greater than 10% of the patrons resented ads/commercials is true and we reject the null hypothesis
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Practice Problems 1-KEY 1. The closing stock price of Ahmadi‚ Inc. for a sample of 10 trading days is shown below. Day Stock Price 1 84 2 87 3 84 4 88 5 85 6 90 7 91 8 83 9 82 10 86 For the above sample‚ compute the following measures. a. b. c. The mean = ∑X/n = 860/10 = 86 The median = (85+86)/2 = 85.5 The variance = ∑ X - X 2/ n-1 = {(84-86)2 + (87-86)2 + (84-86)2 + (88-86)2 + (85-86)2 + (90-86)2 + (91-86)2 + (83The standard deviation = √8.89 = 2.98 The coefficient of variation = 2.98/86 * 100%
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Cuong Le Prof. Deavers. ENG 111/ ENF 3 03-25-2013 With the development of technology and medical systems‚ changing one’s appearance is something which is very normal. People chose to go under some kind of cosmetic surgeries have different reasons‚ but cosmetic surgery do really change some people to a better life. We are surrounded by advertisements‚ movies‚ magazines which usually have pictures of stunning models. The media and those kind of ads establish standard of beauty in their audiences’
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